ifixit teardown awards apple’s new mac mini 6/10 for repairability – macdailynews

tool takes care of the base, and six quick stabs with TR6 Torx driver loosens the familiar antenna underneath, ..   firm push on either side of the blower exhaust is all it takes, and the whole board unclips and slides out, ..   Mac mini now features Apple T2 Security Chip, enabling on-the-fly data encryption, secure boot and up to 30 times HEVC video transcoding...  .   Mac mini now offers faster and expanded I O to allow it to connect to almost anything, including four Thunderbolt 3 ports, HMDI 2.0, two USB-A ports, jack and Gigabit Ethernet, and 10Gb Ethernet option...  ..   Back in the day, Pro Mac meant computer you could upgrade, configure, and connect as you pleased.   This new mini aligns so well with that ideal that we're surprised it did not earn 'Pro title — compared to the increasingly closed-off MacBook Pro line, ..   iFixt awards Mac mini repairability score of 6 out of 10 because CPU and storage are both soldered to the logic board and not user-upgradeable and the entire logic board will need replacing...   Yes, it's possible to upgrade RAM Apple's new Mac mini November 8, 2018.   Macworld reviews Apple's new $799 Mac mini 'A huge improvement that's well worth November 6, 2018.   Share this..., HDMI, iFixit, Mac mini, Mac mini RAM, Macworld, RAM, RAM upgrades, teardown, Thunderbolt, USB-A...   Read more